Warriors and soldiers.

Let me get something straight - we not longer have warriors. We are no longer supposed to have warriors. We are supposed to have soldiers. Soldiers in the modern Canadian context, are citizen who by unbiased and uncoerced choice have decided, volunteered, to become part time warriors. Part time within that microcosm of the human existence withch has become the bane of it as well as a source of morbid fascination and coutless tales - war. The citizen soldiery submits to law and the lawful command of lawfully appointed officers. To deal out death and destruction when and where instructed - if and only when instructed to do so by lawfully granted authority. Granted by the Crown in right of Canada, by the order in coucil of the Parliament of Canada, by the whole Parliament of lawfully elected representatives of the people's voice - vox populi, by the behest of a lawful and representative group of citizenry - to aid in civil matters. Not at their own behest. No the the behest of a small number of readily outspoken and aggressive A-type characters simply because it's funny, it suits it, it's deserved or not. Such things are the actions of warriors, born and bred within a warrior culture, with its own arcane rituals of character and attitude warping to produce a malleable soul, to usurp effort to the good of the leader only. Nazism - warrior castism write large? Perhaps. It exists today and I fear that it rears its ugly head in our schools and in any other setting where large groups are artifically posed together for periods of time. High school and the army have much in common - for it is only the the expanses of university, when school-goers begin to spread out and become wary of cliques and the dangerous mob mentality that springs up so quickly and readily. School gands owe much to the Western world's fascination with cultivating enough warrior types to resist the invading Moslems and Easterners - that we may only just be remember to turn that particular tap off.

I can emulate a warrior. A part-time warrior when called upon to remember that I am capable of acting as a bloodthirsty pack of savages like what I am paid to do. But doing so in a rational environment wherein I have rules to abide by and not the personal whims of what I or a groupd of friends believe. There is a reason and justification why might must not ever control right - for we would end outselves very quickly.

We are, as yet, unfortunately, still necessary in this flawed yet wonderful world. I shall be only too willing to give up and get out if we as humans are capable of change - as I have said for a long time: to negate the police force, is to negate the armed force. But people have not changed and we need an army to defend ourselves of our collective evils.

I am a soldier of the Queen. An officer of the Crown. I must protect those who cannot protect themselves - and some of these wear the same uniform as I.